In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Gabriele Bartolini, a PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes enthusiast, who is VP of Cloud-Native at EDB. He is a co-founder of PostgreSQL Europe, a founding member of Barman. The discussion dives into how Postgres has evolved over the past 20 years, and how people can now run Postgres on Kubernetes. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for running Postgres on Kubernetes, and what users can look forward to in the near future. Show links: Gabriele Bartolini - https://twitter.com/_GBartolini_ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbartolini/ Planet PostgreSQL - https://planet.postgresql.org/ Data on Kubernetes - https://www.youtube.com/c/DoKcommunity/search?query=PostgreSQL vSphere CSI driver v2.5 supports CSI snapshots for block volumes - https://cormachogan.com/2022/03/03/announcing-vsphere-csi-driver-v2-5-support-for-csi-snapshots/ DataStax Extends Operator Reach for Databases - https://containerjournal.com/features/datastax-extends-operator-reach-for-databases/  Dirty Pipe CVE - https://blog.aquasec.com/cve-2022-0847-dirty-pipe-linux-vulnerability KubeCon EU Schedule - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/  Secrets store CSI driver - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinarsecrets-store-csi-driver-bringing-external-secrets-in-house What is a Kubernetes controller (35s video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-NeSg0TBY 

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner discuss Kubernetes Operators and how they use persistent storage. Operators are software control loops that extend Kubernetes to automate and provide ease of use for application such as databases. Learn about some database operators and how they utilize storage. Check out our Pod Page! https://www.podpage.com/kubernetes-bytes/  Show links https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/series-a-funding-announcement/  https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CNCF-AR_FINAL-edits-15.2.21.pdf  https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/24/kubernetes-development-platform-okteto-raises-15m-series-a/  https://signadot.com/blog/announcing-public-beta/  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220224005128/en/Zenoss-Launches-Advanced-Monitoring-Capabilities-for-Kubernetes  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220223005265/en/TrilioVault-for-Kubernetes-Now-Available-in-AWS-Marketplace SODACODE - Data and Storage Hackathon - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sodacode/ https://www.sodafoundation.io/home-2/ https://www.robin.io/featured-press/rakuten-symphony-agrees-to-acquire-leading-us-based-cloud-technology-company-robin-io-to-deliver-highly-integrated-telco-cloud-for-mobile/  https://operatorhub.io/ https://operatorframework.io/operator-capabilities/ https://github.com/cetic/helm-postgresql https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/ 

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Vineeth Pothulapati, a product manager at Timescale, and talk about Kubernetes Observability. The discussion dives into what are the three pillars for Observability and how users can leverage different CNCF and Open-source tools like Prometheus, Promscale, and tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes to get started with Observability.  Show links: Vineeth Pothulapati: https://twitter.com/VineethReddy02 https://opentelemetry.io/ Promscale - https://github.com/timescale/promscale Kube-Prometheus stack - https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack tobs - https://github.com/timescale/tobs Timescale DB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFudksxlZjk PX-Backup As A Service - Early Access Program NetApp Astra Enhancements  TechTarget storage magazine and search storage announce storage products of the year 2021 award winners

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Xing Yang, Tech Lead at VMware and a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG, a co-chair of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, a co-chair of the Data Protection WG in Kubernetes, and a maintainer in Kubernetes CSI. The discussion dives into how Kubernetes SIGs and WGs collaborate, and how people can get started. We also talk about storage features and enhancements introduced in Kubernetes version 1.23 and features and enhancements planned for the Kubernetes 1.24 release. Show links: Xing Yang: https://twitter.com/2000Xyang Storage SIG: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage Data Protection Working Group: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-data-protection Kubernetes Storage SIG Planning Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t4z5DYKjX2ZDlkTpCnp18icRAQqOE85C1T1r2gqJVck/edit?usp=sharing Amazon GuardDuty support for Amazon EKS clusters - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/amazon-guardduty-elastic-kubernetes-service-clusters/ Diamanti Buys Groudwork and its Kubernetes monitoring capability - https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/01/31/diamanti-buys-groundwork-and-its-k8s-monitoring-capability/ Weaveworks buys Magalix to secure GitOps workflows - https://www.magalix.com/blog/magalix-weaveworks-forging-the-path-of-secure-gitops-workflows MinIO raises series-B funding to become a unicorn - https://www.zdnet.com/article/minio-the-de-facto-open-source-standard-for-multi-cloud-storage-becomes-a-unicorn-after-a-103-million-series-b-round-funding/

In todays episode of KubernetesBytes, hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah discuss the basic of running distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and Kafka along with Mongo, CockroachDB and others on Kubernetes. There are various capabilities of Kubernetes that were designed for these types of data services and this podcast should help you get a basic understanding of the landscape as well as WHY you may want to run them on Kubernetes. Show Links: https://thenewstack.io/new-tools-for-optimizing-data-resilience-in-kubernetes/ https://awesome-kubernetes.readthedocs.io/ / https://nubenetes.com/ https://www.containiq.com/post/should-you-run-a-database-on-kubernetes Log4j recap - https://blog.aquasec.com/log4j-vulnerabilities-overview IPv6 support for EKS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-adds-ipv6-networking/ https://thenewstack.io/testkube-a-new-approach-to-cloud-native-testing/ GigaOM DP report 2 https://gigaom.com/report/gigaom-radar-for-kubernetes-data-protection-2/ https://portworx.com/blog/kubernetes-failover-mongodb/ https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/ https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path/content/dam/pdf/en/white-papers/wp-kafka-on-kubernetes-with-portworx.pdf https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.0/cassandra/dml/dmlAboutDataConsistency.html https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-multi-data-center-cassandra-cluster-kubernetes-platform/ https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/

In this first episode of season 2, Bhavin and Ryan interview Kenny Coleman a Technical Product Manager at VMWare working with Tanzu. This episode dives into what Tanzu is, how to get started, what day 1 and day 2 solutions there are as well as where to learn more.  Show Links: https://kube.academy/ https://twitter.com/vmwaretanzu?lang=en https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/  https://bourbonpursuit.com/ 

NOTE ON AUDIO ISSUES: we had some audio difficulties this episode, these will be fixed in future episodes. In this episode, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Kubernetes object. They discuss topics such as What is a Kubernetes object? and What Kubernetes objects use storage? This episode will help listeners understand the different workload object resources in Kubernetes and how they consume and define storage resources. Show Links https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-1-23-whats-new/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-marketplace-for-containers-anywhere-to-deploy-your-kubernetes-cluster-in-any-environment/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-karpenter-an-open-source-high-performance-kubernetes-cluster-autoscaler/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-pull-through-cache-repositories-for-amazon-elastic-container-registry/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-recycle-bin-for-ebs-snapshots/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-snapshots-archive/ https://thenewstack.io/werner-vogels-6-rules-for-good-api-design/ https://containerjournal.com/features/docker-inc-official-images-available-on-aws-container-registry/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-is-the-best-place-to-archive-your-data-introducing-the-s3-glacier-instant-retrieval-storage-class/ What are kubernetes objects Workload Resources (What are they: Pod, PodSpec -> Volumes, Job, Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSets)

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Luay Alem, an enterprise solution architect at Portworx. Luay is a Kubernetes enthusiast, working with Cloud Native and Open Source technologies helping customers with their digital transformation journey. The discussion dives into challenges associated with running Kubernetes on AWS, the different storage options available, and how customers are leveraging Portworx for their Data Management, Data Migration, and Disaster Recovery needs. Show Links: 1. Pokemon Go uses Kubernetes: https://thenewstack.io/how-pokemon-go-creator-builds-on-kubernetes-for-developers/ 2. Creating the enterprise app store - using GitOps and Kubernetes: https://youtu.be/ke-cKKzqriM 3. Improve Core-to-Edge Mobility and Resiliency for Cloud-Native Applications: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cloud-native-live-improve-core-to-edge-mobility-and-resiliency-for-cloud-native-applications/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--UstWsorHoSJybBAmT9r_f8z61VwnHr0ELrHqmFbUmktlg8skl62FSwF98-y5pXr-R80PS 4. Lacework funding round: https://www.lacework.com/press-release/lacework-closes-seriesD-funding-round/ 5. Datacore buys Mayadata: https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/11/18/boom-datacore-arrives-in-kubernetes-storage-space-by-buying-mayadata/ 6. Inspecting container filesystems: https://blog.px.dev/container-filesystems/ 7. Portworx is hiring: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhavin04890_kubernetes-vexpert-vexpertmodernapps-activity-6861314066154041344-WzEU

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Michael Cade, a community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam. Michael has been in the industry for over 16 years, with a key focus on technologies such as cloud-native, automation, and data management. The discussion dives into challenges associated with managing data on Kubernetes and how data protection and disaster recovery solutions have changed from virtual machines to containers. Show links: Michael Cade:  https://twitter.com/MichaelCade1/ https://vzilla.co.uk/ https://cndmday.com/ Azure Container Apps: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure/introducing-azure-container-apps-a-serverless-container-service/ba-p/2867265?ocid=AID3042118 Azure Arc enabled data services: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc/directly-connected-mode-for-azure-arc-enabled-data-services-is/ba-p/2908836 101 Content:  https://loft.sh/blog/kubernetes-persistent-volumes-examples-and-best-practices/ https://www.squadcast.com/blog/introduction-to-kubernetes-storage The rise of Kubernetes and its impact on enterprise databases: https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/03/the-rise-of-kubernetes-and-its-impact-on-enterprise-databases/

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner recap their experiences with KubeCon North America 2021. The hosts talk about their opinions in regards to the overall success of KubeCon NA 2021, their first-hand experiences both in-person as well as virtual and the various as news and announcements that relate to using data on Kubernetes. Show Links https://kubebyexample.com/> https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/10/13/entry-level-kubernetes-certification-to-help-advance-cloud-careers/ https://dok.community/dokc-2021-report/ https://cilium.io/blog/2021/10/13/cilium-joins-cncf https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/cfp/ https://openssf.org/press-release/2021/10/13/open-source-security-foundation-raises-10-million-in-new-commitments-to-secure-software-supply-chains/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kc8BbiVDVU "Whats new in Kubernetes Storage - Xing Yang" Portworx - PX-Backup 2.1 - https://portworx.com/blog/introducing-px-backup-2-1/ Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Advanced Cluster Management 2.4 - https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-openshift-4-9s-single-node-clusters-for-the-edge/ NetApp Astra Data Store - https://www.crn.com/news/storage/netapp-debuts-astra-data-store-with-kubernetes-native-software-defined-file-services Google Anthos for VMs - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/introducing-anthos-for-vms-and-other-app-modernization-tools IBM Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Protect Plus - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/simple-resilient-hybrid-cloud-with-ibm-storage/ SUSE Harvester - https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-harvester-deploying-virtual-machines-with-kubernetes Akuity - https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/11/akuity-launches-to-be-the-argo-ent